When God motivates you to fast
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
SUMMARY: Fasting is a spiritual discipline that should be accompanied by faith and sincere submission to God's will. It should not be a religious event or ceremonial act to seek an answer from God according to man's expectations. God gives promises of life, justice, help and blessing if fasting is done as He wishes. The fast that God wants from his children is to break the chains of injustice, share bread with the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, clothe the naked and not leave aside fellow men. Fasting should be done with humility and not for show. God rejects religiosity that is not accompanied by true fervor for the brother.
God is always busy, but never busy enough to ignore the claims of his children, ignore our requests, and deny us his mercy. Human history is also a story of useless sacrifices by man to seek his own benefits. But God is wise, with a model of wisdom that our discernment will never understand.
No one doubts the spiritual value of fasting. The Bible leaves us with immemorial imprints of men and women of God who sought his direction through fasting accompanied by prayer. Although it is a beautiful and sacrificial act of the believer's will to seek harmony in the Spirit of God (with well-determined objectives), it must mean, for those who practice it as spiritual discipline, a sincere submission and surrender to the designs already God's will. It is an outpouring of the soul before God and a spiritual resource to strengthen faith and inner holiness; It should never be a religious event or ceremonial act of outward worship to seek an answer from God according to man's expectations. Fasting has to be accompanied by faith. Personally, I believe that God always responds to humiliation, to the affliction of the soul when his will is sincerely sought. He knows the heart of man. "The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the low in spirit" (Psalm 34:18)
No one doubts the spiritual value of fasting. The Bible leaves us with immemorial imprints of men and women of God who sought his direction through fasting accompanied by prayer. Although it is a beautiful and sacrificial act of the believer's will to seek harmony in the Spirit of God (with well-determined objectives), it must mean, for those who practice it as spiritual discipline, a sincere submission and surrender to the designs already God's will. It is an outpouring of the soul before God and a spiritual resource to strengthen faith and inner holiness; It should never be a religious event or ceremonial act of outward worship to seek an answer from God according to man's expectations. Fasting has to be accompanied by faith. Personally, I believe that God always responds to humiliation, to the affliction of the soul when his will is sincerely sought. He knows the heart of man. "The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the low in spirit" (Psalm 34:18)
